The chapter opens by declaring that the thoughts and intents of the Father’s heart are eternal—without beginning, without end, and without alteration. God’s purpose has never wavered across the ages; it is everlasting, unchanging, and certain to reach its fulfillment both in heaven and on earth. His purpose is the very definition of “eternal,” and…
From Worthy Briefs: Worthy Brief – 7/17/2026 Friend, covenant as never meant to be treated casually! Matthew 5:31-32 “Furthermore it has been said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’ 32 But I say to you that whoever divorces his wife for any reason except sexual immorality causes her to commit adultery;…
Long before the first tabernacle was even built how did people worship God? And how did God communicate with man? God is a jealous God (Deuteronomy 4:23,24) and He does not hesitate to tell us in the commandments we are not to set up graven images of any kind, yet across the land we see…
It is written blessed are the eyes that see and the ears that hear, what exactly is seen and heard? The best example given us is found in the calling of Saul on the road to Damascus when Jesus tells him he will be made a minister and a witness to a people he was just delivered…
This world has one major need right now at the beginning of the 21st Century. The world doesn’t need another politician telling the people what they want to hear. The world doesn’t need a steady robust economy to help it through the hard times that have been prophesied upon it. No. The world needs the sons…
The Longing of Life – Purity There is a hope that burns like a refiner’s fire, a hope that purifies the heart, freeing it from the passions and the lusts of this world. “Beloved, now we are the children of God, and it was not yet revealed what we shall be. But we know that…
Christ, the exiled King of the universe, is coming back to this earth to fully establish His government. He will be reigning and ruling through a body of chosen humans, a cadre numbering a few thousand (Revelation 7, 14). The whole creation is waiting “for the manifestation of the sons and daughters of God” (Rom.…
Those who put their trust and hope in God are a blessed people, as they have come to know only God is the one who can deliver them from all their trouble! (Psalm 33:12-20) Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance. The Lord looketh…
The Spirit of truth does not dwell where sin still reigns Sin must die on the cross with Christ before the Spirit of truth will dwell and abide in us. Yet sin is one of the most sensitive subjects—guilt, desperation, shame, and fear often accompany it. Few understand its scriptural definition: “Sin is the transgression…
OH’ what power God has worked through His Son Jesus who was raised from the grave on the third day, and those of us who believe and follow Him will also do the same. (Hosea 6:1-2) Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath…
Seventy-five years on the planet gives me perspective on the nation’s decline into darkness. I have seen the degrading of almost everything in our society. Take music. Secular love songs from 60-70 years ago were about the pains and joys of the heart. Now they are of the “lusts of the flesh.” Economics? Our dollar…
The attitude of many is “I am just a sinner saved by grace” which makes the claim sin is inevitable in our life and we cannot be saved from sinning wholly. Those who have been genuinely redeemed know they cannot sin when the spirit of God lives within them. Those who have the mindset we cannot be freed completely from our sin will…
“As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for You, O God.” Psalm 42:1 (ESV) The Longing of Life – His Invitation “Heaven is endless longing, accompanied with an endless fruition– a longing which is blessedness, a longing which is life.” Alexander MacLaren (continued from Part One) Using the sailboat illustration again, the…
“As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for You, O God.” Psalm 42:1 (ESV) Throughout the history of God with His own, we touch the passion and eternal longing for something that transcends our understanding. The “panting” within David’s heart found a corresponding cry in God’s creation. He did not know…
It always comes down to the sin question. The Savior is not going to let us slide on this point. “Sin is the transgression of the law.” Breaking one of the Ten Commandments is the scriptural definition (I John 3: 4). We all have in the past broken them, but are we still breaking them?…
Precious Sheep Of Renown 
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